Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-09-03
A Miners Luck.

the deal, who is we'll known among the prospecting fraternity of Arizona for his genial ways and ubiquitous dispo- sition. The mine in question is located in Pima county, not far from the site of the old Ida gold mine, and will un- doubtedly handsomely repay the amount invested:
 "Waal boys, Ye can all tell yer 'ston- ishin yarns abont luck and the like in fndin mines but ken lay over ye with the 'stonishingest piece of veracity re- gardin' the sellin' of one ye ever heerd of before I've bin into the metaliferous bizness cumin' nigh onto forty year now, an hev' sole many propertie, but l be durned if l ever had sech another clap of yaller Tipped fortune call aroun'
 my way before-and never expeck to agin. Talk about your vls'tations of Provi-
 dence! That was no name fer the em- bracin' she giv' me on that Happy Euro mine-no doubt ye've heerd of it before this. Hevent chi Wall thess neither here ner thar. I had the allfredest happenin in relation to it t'other day
 that ever made mortal miner feel good all over an down in his socks too. Ye
 all know I've been purity hard up of late, | an had to scratch aroun, like blazes fer enuff tin to keep my ole bones rum freezin', in the winter. an little ba- con and beans with mite of coffee to
 keep the wolf rum the cabin door.
 Purty poor it was, I tell ye, but wus mighty glad to get even that these hard
 times, an me too old an crippled up with the rumatis to work to eny account.
 Anyhow l had a purity good location
 an wus middlin' cheerful mos of tue time, hopin' to sell for enuff to run me year
 or two anyhow. But ye know how all
 mines do hang fire at first, an l wus gettin mighty close to the wall with a
 sort of desperit feelin' gro@in' on me ss the grub sack got lower an lower, an
 my ole toes begun to scrub on the sharp rocks an my ole britches all holes an
 patches, an only one black looking quar- ter to repair the damages with. I tell ye, fellsrs, it was squally times with yer | humble sarvent then, an he had to get up an hump himself or expire to death | of starvation, that much was plain. One day A short, slick lookip' feller, with one
 of them patent collars that pass each
 other in front. cum to my cabin-which wus bit outen square rocks on the sides an an ole wagon sheet fer top-an'
 sed he heerd had a promisin' prospeck
 fer mine, an 'ud like to see it eff I he'd
 time to show it. wus psrty nigh tick
 led to deth, butt didn't let on, an pur-
 tended not to care durn whether he
 seen the claim or not. said, Wall, yas, hev got right smart of location up
 wonder thet c'u'd sole some time agc
 ef wanted to. Won't ye come in an
 set down? pil hev some coffee reddy nl
 a mnit an we'll have smack O some
 thin to eat. But he sed he didn't hey
 time an want hungry wutb mentioning.
 knowed what wus the matter. He
 didn't like the bill of fare; but offered
 hun the best I had. so I didn't cart
 much an took him all over the claim, an
 he sampled it good from one end tC
 tuther. I knowed the rock w'u'd TUT
 way up iuto the nineties, maybe more
 80 I wusn't much afraid about making
 sale, cos wus g 'in' toi sell it dirt cheeI ; to make sure. He didn't ask me thu
 price, an didn't tell i'm, reservin' tha
 till the last thing to sirprize him Fitl
 the cheepness of 1t, after he had lgo
 biz assays as 1 -kuowsd he w'u'd aIV
 reglar ilsher lege two foot thick. H. left sayin' he'd be back in day or &
 if the rock banned out reasonable. H
 went over to American Flag an he'd i assayed, an the nex day he cum back c'u'd see he wus excited conside role
 but he tried to hide 1t, an didn't le
 on noticed it, an didn't ask 'em wha
 the rock run. He set down on box
 an sed, with kind of sad look on hi face, thet the assays didn't run as we as he expected, but as he ruther like : the indications there abouts, eff w'u' be reasonable we mite make a trade Z c'u'd see he was privaricatin' abou r them assays, cause he kept lookin through hole in the canvas when l tole about them, but I purten led nu l to notice nothing, an sed whatever " 3 done he w'u'd hev to pay cash down v caus wus SO durned hard up c'u'dn' r wait, an eff he didn't buy I'd hev t sell out to another fellar thet wus cumi ] up in few days. hadn't seen. n B other feller but I wanted to make 'er
 bleeve I c'u'd sell out eny time, so's t
 make 'em cum down to bizness. It di : kinder scare i'm an he sed eff . didn't want too much mabe he c'u' 5 fix it. Alter studdyin fer awhile, h T ser, very perlite and song frsw like How much are ye askin fer yer claim !; Mister Dawson2 It wus the furst tim had been mysteried sense l crosse s the plains in AZ, an iS made me lik - that chap light of. I wus goin' to as ,. i'm nine hunder' dollar, but when h called me mister nocked of a hunde dollar, an sez, very deliberate, Ye ke hev the locashun fer eight hunder' do e lar, cash down, in ham paid; Eight thousan'-dollar,' sez, he, very slow , Thet's ruther steep, but I'll see whs T I ken do.' Yes, sez l, eight thousal T dollar'-golly how big it sounded. o liked to choked utterin' it.-'eigf thousan' dollar isa purity big pile, bl n ye must consider the propertie. It d the best location in Arizony. By go I c'u'dn't hardly keep from gitin' up al 8 dancin' felt so good. Thar that ma 0 he'd gone an added of his own free wi
 an accord seven thousan' two hundt
 dollar, to what ast i'm fer the clain I didn't want the iggers to look big . i'm, so l was goin to ask i'm nine hundt v stead of thousan'-which 'ud look to /. bIg-till he called me mister 'an 1 al l | ha